A little man's night's comforts, or, Boney's visions [graphic]

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Title: A little man's night's comforts, or, Boney's visions [graphic]
Alternative Title: Boney's visions
Contributor: Braddyll, Thomas, 1776-1862, artist.
Published / Created: pubd. 14 July 1803.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Napoleon in bed wearing a nightshirt holds a map of Malta while visions of soldiers poisoned in the hospital at Jaffe, the massacre at Paris 18 Vendémiaire, the invasion of England, ghosts of the 3800 murdered Turks on the sand hills of Syria, the surrender of Ajacio in 1793, Wellington seeking revenge, his attempted poisoning, and murder by his own soldiers fill the room
Description: Title etched below image.
Artist tentatively identified as Lt-Col Thomas Braddyll, a young amateur who supplied designs for satirical prints to James Gillray. See British Museum online catalogue.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
For a later print with a similar theme and title, see no. 11736 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9.
Watermark: Russel & Co. 1799.
Provenance: From the collection of Count von Starhemberg, Austrian Envoy in London. Andrew Edmunds; June 2022.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 29 x 37 cm, on sheet 34 x 43 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English